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Brother XII Affair Transcribed by Jennifer Bolstler, Vancouver Island University – February 24, 2015 Brother XII Affair Transcribed by Jennifer Bolstler, Vancouver Island University – February 24, 2015 [recording starts] William Barraclough:...by the sea a few miles south of Nanaimo. With monies mostly in gold coin, acquired from disciples of his cult, he purchased property including Ruxton Island, De Courcy Island, and 400 acres on Valdes Island, creating the Aquarian Foundation and assuming the name of Amiel de Valdes, known also as Brother XII. Many articles have been published about the enterprise. Also pictures are available of some buildings constructed. Also of the ship Lady Royal that he acquired in England in 1930 and sailed it to Cedar. The ship played a prominent part in the Foundation's workings. It was reported Brother XII died November 7th, 1934, but proof of where he died, to our knowledge, is not established. The following recorded account is by Mr. Victor B. Harrison of Nanaimo, who acted as legal advisor to some of the disenchanted victims of the foundation. He tells of some incidence connected with the case. This is William Barraclough speaking. Introducing, Mr. Victor B Harrison. Victor Harrison: [I'm here to] speak on Brother XII. A very notorious character who came here to Nanaimo. He first landed in Northfield and rented a house from a Mrs. Reynolds, if I remember. No relation to the newspaper family Reynolds who lived in Nanaimo. I think her name was Peggy Reynolds. The first I ever heard of him was this lady, Mrs. Reynolds - Peggy Reynolds, came into my office one day and told me about Brother XII. His real name was Edward Arthur Wilson. He was born in England, the son of a clergyman in the Catholic Apostolic Church. He had married a princess as he said from India, from Kashmir India. However, to continue the story of Brother XII, she said, "He owes me some rent and I'd like you to collect it." I forget the amount; it wasn't very much. She said, "He keeps on promising to pay me this money, he's writing all the time, he's writing many quantities of paper all over; he's constantly writing," she says "you get an enormous amount of written material. And he said 'I'll pay you,' he said 'some day I'll pay you every dollar' he said 'I have no money just now, but I'm starting a new religion.' " is what she said " 'Then I'll have plenty of money.' " So I wrote a letter to him, and she came in a few days after [unintelligible] and said "This Reverend Wilson, the tenant, paid this rent to me," she said "I appreciate you getting after him." and so forth, so she said "What do you I owe you?" I forget what I told her. I think the collection was 8 or 10%. I've forgotten. 3:35 So I heard no more of this man. Except stories came in to me from time to time, that he had bought 145 acres at what they called Cedar-by-the-Sea. And he tried to buy an area of about the same size from the Bakers who owned at one time the Dew Drop Hotel on Haliburton Street. That deal did not come off, but he did buy the 145 acres, so the story came in, and these peculiar people were in town. He was forming a new religion it seems. And [long pause] I heard many queer stories about this group of people. I got acquainted with some of them because they used to come to a little restaurant, which was over that tobacco store on the corner of Commercial and Wharf Street. Barraclough: Billy Grey's tobacco store. Harrison: Yeah, it was Billy Grey's tobacco store. There was a two story building on the corner there, stretched quite a way back and Mrs. Reed ran the tearooms there and I used to go there. And I went there on several occasions and that's way I get to know them all by sight. And some of them got acquainted with me and I [saw them away?]. [long pause] It seems that a rather bad lawsuit had commenced because there was a man called Ireland who had one time been on the detective force, the Pinkerton's in the United States, and he had joined the group. And he was in the big central building out by Cedar- on-the-Sea, and he complained that he wasn't getting his salary. He was the bookkeeper for the concern. And he put in a slip, it seems, on the books to show that he was getting his salary, put a correct entry into arrears and took the $10,000 arrears of salary, and the result of which the Brother XII, Amiel de Valdes, as he was afterwards called arrested him for embezzlement or fraud or something of that kind. 6:12 And he was being tried before the then police magistrate of the city, C. H. Beevor-Potts [Charles Herbert Beevor-Potts] where he held court at that time in the City Hall building at the corner of Bastion and Skinner Street and my office was right across Skinner Street, right opposite this police court. And the police station was next door to that with an alley running through. I heard many stories affair in the police court but I didn't see much of it, actually. One day, I'd heard, of course, what it was about. And Mr. Cunliffe, F.S. Cunliffe, he was a lawyer who's now passed away, he was acting for Brother XII, and Ireland to get back at the Brother XII he brought an action against Brother XII for obtaining some $25,000 from Mrs. Connally, Mrs. Mary Connally. Barraclough: Yes, I remember Mrs. Connally. Harrison: She would get... Her family came from Virginia, she was a very wealthy person it seems. And he had met her at hotel in Toronto and got $25,000 out of her on the representation that he required, he required this money to build a place called Greystone, a stone building on the De Courcy group of islands, which he had obtained from, I think the Flewett estate; I just forget the people he bought it from. And there were two islands north and south of it, Ruxton and Plyades [i.e. Pylades]. He owned one, I think Ruxton, I think Pylades was bought by some people called Roberts. 8:04 However, [long pause] this action came for trial, I think it was adjourned and tried several times. And I wanted to see Sergeant Russell, who was in charge of the then Provincial Police, and I walked in through the alley way by the old police station and came in the side door into the police court. The police court was jammed with all people of different kinds just to see what was going on. And there was Beevor-Potts sitting up on the bench and he was the lawyer for the prosecution, a man who has now passed away by the name of Morton. And he was a man who had no belief in these mysterious things that Brother XII was dealing with. He said he had no fear of spirits or ghosts or any of that kind. So I was just watching it, trying to get Sergeant Russell's eye to tell him what I wanted, and I saw Mr. Morton, the lawyer, collapse on the bench and four or five people collapse and they fell to the floor. I thought this was a very extraordinary performance. And from out of the audience came Brother XII, strode across the police court floor and held out his hand to shake hands with me, and he said "This is an awful state of affairs," he said, "they're trying to prosecute me," he said, "but there's nothing in it, and you are going to be appointed by the crown to prosecute this case." I said, "Don't talk to me, go away. I don't want to be bothered with you." And he then retired and went back into he audience. Beevor-Potts was very much disturbed and in a rather shaky voice he managed to say, "This court is adjourned." 10:03 Barraclough: Mr. Harrison, before you go any further, could you give us a little more detail about why people fainted or passed out down in the court there? Harrison: Well that was some mysterious- They claim it was a mysterious part of the Brother XII. He was the son of a hypnotist or what you might call him, I don't know. Barraclough: Do you think he really hypnotised them? Harrison: Well I think some people are subject to hypnotism, there's not a doubt about that. Though I don't think Mr. Morton would be, but still he went down; he was the first man to collapse. And however, the next thing I heard, if I remember rightly - it may have been before that time or after, I cannot remember - but they came to my house, a delegation of the followers of Brother XII. The leader of the delegation was a Mystery-Man, as they call him, from Florida and several others, and they came into my office and said "We want to put a proposition before you" and they explained to me the various things that had happened there while they lived under the influence of this Brother XII who was the leader of this colony. They pointed out that he had a new religion which they had joined and in which they placed great confidence.
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